Skip to content

Depreciate & remove mimetype #2527

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
Tracked by #2429
ewels opened this issue Nov 23, 2023 · 0 comments
Open
Tracked by #2429

Depreciate & remove mimetype #2527

ewels opened this issue Nov 23, 2023 · 0 comments
Labels

Comments

@ewels
Copy link
Member

ewels commented Nov 23, 2023

I don't think that mimetype is used by any tooling, and it generally confuses people about what to enter for it and what it will be used for.

The initial idea was that it could help 3rd party tooling for having generators - eg. if the mimetype is text/csv then a spreadsheet editor could be displayed for creating data. If it was text/json then a code editor and so on. However, in practice it's easy and arguably more robust to do this by using filename extension, plus no-one has added editor support anywhere (that I'm aware of).

As such, in order to keep the schema lean and not confuse people, proposal is to drop the field.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant